The digital age devolves into an acoustic paradigm.

Has the digital age devolved into an acoustic paradigm? Has the 'Posterity medium' of writing become as limited, and limiting, as the spoken cultures of yesteryear? Have we devolved, denying our need for ritual and religion? Have we placed our innate faith in the technology and devices of proximity? Rather than use the hard work and necessary doubt of reason and insight? Have we chosen apathy, or has the mediums of communications ;lost faith? Have the programs become the message, leaving the meaning on the 'cutting room' floor? Is the loss of meaning in the messages the root cause of the meaning crisis?  new media is short form - like wiki being read on you tube Post literate tribal to neo-post-literate tribal - Archaic revival? less writing itself as the driving force of posterity: more the 'posterity medium' (a medium that allows ideas to be shared outside the individual presence) is what expanded our culture and our minds Our minds expand out from ourselves - have we expanded beyond our ability to regather ourselves?? Like a Quebec philosopher who believes about tech evolves faster than the anima/psyche. Thus the reasons for our 'crisis of meaning' and why we are degenerating to 'archaic religion behaviors' applied to science, or tech, or diet or crystals...